Hickenlooper: Riding the Fence of Death

By Llama on May 28, 2013

So let me get this straight, Gov. Hickenlooper is letting Nathan Dunlap off the injection hook for now…but this is the same guy who hemmed and hawed when the repeal of the death penalty was on the table 2 months ago? Uh. Okay. Hickenlooper now:

“It is a legitimate question whether we as a state should be taking lives.”

Back in March, there was word that there were enough votes to pass the bill that would repeal the death penalty in Colorado. But this was Hickenlooper two months ago:

“Hickenlooper on Tuesday spoke with House Democrats…one hour before a committee was scheduled to hear the death-penalty bill.

Rep. Dan Pabon, D-Denver, said it was the first time he has heard the governor use the word ‘veto.’

‘He did not say, ‘I will definitely, undoubtedly with no question veto this,’ Pabon said. ‘But he did say that is something he is bouncing around. He used the ‘v’ word.'” – Denverpost.com

Denverpost.com quoted Rep. Lois Court of Denver stating that Hickenlooper thinks there needs to be more public conversation. Yeah. I got that. But shouldn’t he have been doing this awhile ago? How about when the bill was introduced? How about when he knew the bill was going to be introduced? How about when he got into office and there were already guys on death row? And what’s with the state reps? Even if Hickenlooper hinted that he was going to veto the bill, why change their vote? Let Hickenlooper shoulder the dirty work veto. If I was a state rep, I ain’t taking the fall for Hickenlooper’s ever changing stance. Just saying. Ahh, but now all of a sudden Hickenlooper has decided “a conversation” should take place about the death penalty. This guy.

Of course my first thought was “who’s going to profit the most if Hickenlooper changes his death penalty stance and this guy isn’t killed?” Don’t get me wrong, I’m anti-death penalty and there should definitely be a discussion about this issue. But the flip flopping? Hmm. Something’s going on.

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Hickenlooper has no intention of executing this scumbag. This was a purely political decision which I believe has to do with his national political aspirations as well as his fear of alienating a lot of weathy liberals. I hate Hickenlooper’s guts. Totally.

Hadn’t heard, but I hate his guts more than I can put into words. I tend to try to avoid much political reading, it gets to me and I want to vomit. When he was mayor here in Denver, he was mostly just retarded, like with his “end homelessness” pie in the sky feel-good program where these stupid donation parking meters were placed around the city. Years ago he hired an illegal alien dishwasher in one of his restaurants that ended up murdering a Denver cop doing private security at some stupid party. Unfortunately the average Denver County voter has the IQ of a bucket of bait worms, so people like him keep getting elected.

Hickenlooper/loopy/poopy/pooper’s moves are all purely political. What really sickened me was that his wife offered to not divorce him if he ran for president… She’d stay married to him for political aspirations, but not for their child. My effing God.